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Lori Emerson

@loriemerson.net

media studies professor | Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, 2025) | dir. @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social | http://loriemerson.net | Boulder, Colorado | 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🏃‍♀️🚴‍♀️ | 📷 Jenna Maurice

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Lori Emerson@loriemerson.net · 5d ago

Flusser says that “Culture is a device for inheriting acquired information” and he too would appreciate that three generations of squirrels have managed to pass on to each other that they can chew a hole in my screen window and safely head over to the nut container for a little snack—-

Tammy Komoff@tammykomoff.bsky.social · 2w ago

🌳 The Tree Library in Sweden is a 217-volume collection of wooden books. 📖 Each volume is dedicated to a different tree species and bound in that tree's own bark. Its pages feature the tree's leaves, mosses, lichens, and other natural materials. A very cool way to document nature.

The tree book collection. Several books, their spines made of the bark, the front and back covers of the wood.
Lori Emerson@loriemerson.net · 2w ago

being a woman of a certain age means wearing a muscle shirt to the appointment with the sports medicine doc because you want to be taken seriously? or—wrong approach, Emerson, wrong approach…

Lori Emerson@loriemerson.net · 3w ago

this is probably the most Colorado news headline I've seen in awhile: "Stuck in one of Colorado's abandoned missile silos? This fire department will now charge $5,000 to rescue you."

"Stuck in one of Colorado's abandoned missile silos? This fire department will now charge $5,000 to rescue you."
Lori Emerson@loriemerson.net · 3w ago

from the Editor in Chief of Science: "Rigorous human checking of AI-generated research papers is creating bottlenecks as publishers strive to maintain the integrity of the scientific record. The challenge is requiring even more human effort, making the whole endeavor slower and more expensive." 1/2

AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive

There’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Alt...

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Lori Emerson@loriemerson.net · 4w ago

more tidbits from Berlin, this time involving odd and rare artifacts from Wolfgang Ernst’s Media Archaeological Fundus: a Sony Watchman, deconstructed tube TV, touch typewriter, stylus and cylinder typewriter (?!), Germany’s version of Minitel, and a replica of a Tesla electrical current generator

Lori Emerson@loriemerson.net · 4w ago

notes from Berlin: 1) cyclists can pass each other and pass walkers continuously here without ever having to ring a g-d bell or yell about how they’re coming up! on your left! 2) German parks are the best. That’s it. For now.

Park in central Berlin bisected by a wide gravel path with large, green, leafy trees around a meadow covered in equally bright geeen grass
Lori Emerson@loriemerson.net · 2mo ago

did a cost/benefit analysis of rumination with my mom and while mom claims that enough rumination eventually produces an answer, I believe that one can never definitively know that THAT conclusion is the right one therefore keep ruminating because rumination is good, people. mom and I endorse 100%.

Lori Emerson@loriemerson.net · 2mo ago

I had the really wonderful opportunity to talk with Sara June on the Barn Raiser podcast (focused on progressive politics in rural America) and for the first time ever got to talk about my family history, especially my great grandmother Ella who was half Sisseton Wahpeton Sioux 1/4

archival document titled "RECEIPT FOR PATENT" dated Oct. 11, 1909 detailing Ella Barse's receipt of 40 acres of land. it states she is of Sisseton and Wahpeton descent.